SENSING AND SILENCE – Feminine Qualities in Public Discussions

What are "Feminine Qualities" and how can they be helpful in our lives and in the world?

For a very long time feminine qualities have been dismissed as not appropriate for managing the "real world". Tough men had to say where the world is directed to and the feminine ways of being seemed to be more adapted to raising children and be good wives in support of their husbands. Well, yes. And we shouldn't underestimate the influence of women on their men. In my opinion they, sometimes, were able to calm them down a little and so prevent the worst. We cannot know how often and how much they were successful, but obviously not successful enough if we consider where the masculine way of being in the world has brought us: A life full of technology and wellbeing on the one hand and destruction of our basis of life on the other hand. The question arises: what is of more value and how can the world come back into balance - if it is still possible?

Certainly not with more of the same, with more masculine drivenness for power and dominance, for destruction of nature in service of ideas and ideologies. We women and the feminine ways of being and thinking - which can be embodied also by men -, we need to become active and take part in the destiny of our planet, give our gifts for the survival of our species. We are born caretakers and weavers of relationships, we have the innate knowledge of how to create bondings and how to take care for future generations. We are called to become self-confident about our abilities - instead of holding back for fear to be smiled on as "a weak woman who sheds tears on everything" and who is not able to deal with the hard facts of life. 

We need to present feminine qualities in the public sphere, push back against masculine arrogance and shortsightedness and offer our perspectives on everything that matters, directly and in public. We might not always be "right" - and we are not - but we need to counterbalance the overly rationalized and simplified ways of masculine reasoning of "one at a time", where they loose the wider perspective on the consequences of their decisions and actions.

For this reason the women of "Women Matters" inside the Wisdom Factory come together and explore what can be done and how we can be in order to become part of the solution instead of perpetuating the problem.

Watch here our meeting last month - and if you feel inspired to collaborate, contact us!